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That particular quandary was styled as a hallmark of Generation X, and Reality Bites was perhaps the most polished of a bunch of mainstream attempts to portray the ambivalent cohort. As if that werenРІР‚в„ўt work enough, Lelaina is also attempting to choose between two men who represent her divergent prospects: to sell out or not to sell out. She drew from her own life to create the story of Lelaina Pierce, a disaffected college grad (played by HollywoodРІР‚в„ўs grunge icon, Winona Ryder), who is herself producing a documentary about her equally disaffected friends.

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Just as the 1994 movie was the first feature-length film Stiller ever directed, it was the first that the writer Helen Childress had ever scripted.

РІР‚СљBenРІР‚Сњ is Ben Stiller, the director and co-star of Reality Bites, which marks its 25th anniversary this year with a reunion event at the Tribeca Film Festival. РІР‚СљThe Ed Ruscha gas station where theyРІР‚в„ўre dancing under the stars,РІР‚Сњ he told The New Yorker in 2012, РІР‚СљthatРІР‚в„ўs all Ben.РІР‚Сњ But the movieРІР‚в„ўs producer, Michael Shamberg, compared it to pop art. The tableau is reminiscent of an Edward Hopper painting, at once desolate and bright. Cut to exterior: The trio dance in the glowing light of the Food Mart, their car abandoned at the pump to the left, the astral darkness reaching over it all. Four 20-something friends with uncertain futures are bearing armfuls of chips, soda, and cigarettes as The KnackРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљMy SharonaРІР‚Сњ starts up on the radio three of them immediately drop everything to bop along to the song.

If Reality Bites has a defining moment, itРІР‚в„ўs got to be that scene at the gas station.

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